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Basilica emerges from Turkish lake, illuminates early Church life
AFP, Published on 24/11/2025
» IZNIK, Turkey - When it was discovered a decade ago, the 4th-century basilica of Nicaea was totally submerged, its importance to early Christian history hidden beneath a lake in northwestern Turkey.
Citizenship restored to former Greek royals
Reuters, Published on 24/12/2024
» ATHENS - The former royal family of Greece has been granted citizenship and has pledged loyalty to the republic in a landmark move 50 years after the country abolished the monarchy.
Greece's last king Constantine laid to rest at former royal cemetery
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» ATHENS: Greece's last king, Constantine II, was laid to rest on Monday at the royal cemetery of Tatoi near Athens, after a private funeral service that drew dozens of European royals and a crowd of several hundreds.
Royals gather for funeral of Greece's last king Constantine
AFP, Published on 16/01/2023
» ATHENS - The funeral of Greece's last king, Constantine II, will take place on Monday with a host of European royalty expected to descend on Athens for the service.
Greece's ex-king Constantine, end of a dynasty
AFP, Published on 11/01/2023
» ATHENS - Greece's former king Constantine II, who died on Tuesday aged 82, was the last member of a century-long dynasty in power when a brutal army dictatorship seized control of the country in 1967.
UK's Prince Philip taken to hospital as 'precaution'
AFP, Published on 17/02/2021
» LONDON: Britain's Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was admitted to a London hospital overnight as a "precautionary measure", Buckingham Palace said on Wednesday, with sources saying it was not due to coronavirus symptoms.
Mitsotakis becomes Greece's new PM on vow to end economic crisis
AFP, Published on 08/07/2019
» ATHENS: Greece's new prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, formally takes up the reins Monday, a day after an election victory that puts him in charge of the EU's most indebted member with promises to end a decade of economic crisis.
Bethlehem church mosaics sparkle in time for Christmas
AFP, Published on 16/12/2018
» BETHLEHEM (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Masked for centuries by the soot of candles and lately by scaffolding, the mosaics of Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity have been restored to their Crusader-era splendour in time for Christmas.
Algeria in mourning after its most deadly plane crash
AFP, Published on 12/04/2018
» ALGIERS (ALGERIA) - Algerians on Thursday mourned 257 people killed in a military plane crash the day before, the country's worst-ever aviation catastrophe, with no indication yet of the cause.
Britain's Prince Philip, 96, hospitalised for hip surgery
AFP, Published on 03/04/2018
» LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II's 96-year-old husband Prince Philip was admitted to hospital in London on Tuesday for planned surgery on his hip, Buckingham Palace said in a statement.